The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 73° VOL. LXXIV. Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST: NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 20 Bond Of $2000 Is ~~ z Set For Pair Who | Attacked Jailer In Escape Try Bond was set at $2,000 each for a pair of Monroe County jail inmates who made an unsuccessful es- cape attempt last week, by : dustice of the Peace Ira Al-- bury following a_ prelimin- ary hearing yesterday. They were bound over «to Criminal Court when they pleaded not guilty to the charges. The pair, Albert D. Davis, 23, Miami and Joseph Jack- | son, 25, were being held in the. jail for when on January 16th they made an attempt to escape’ © by attacking jailer Jerry La. brada. The try for freedom’ was frustrated however by Labrada with the aid of a/’ trasty, Oliver Luoni. In testimony yesterday, jailer Labrada told of how, when he was locking the pair in their cells for the night, they turned on him and slugged him and took his keys. “They made believe that they were going.into the cell and then Davis turned and‘slugged me in | the face and stunned me,” brada testified.“ shouted to Jack: him,’ meaning! helping me,’ Labrada con« tinued. . said.that-he was Anock- floor in @ terrific ‘scuffle a pair of would-be eseapists took his keys from his pocket. “I ‘heard them. fumbling with the “dock,” he said. As the pair worked frantically to ‘open the door .of the cell, the jailer's wife appeared with a pis- tol. ? “$he's out there with a gun — let's giye up,” Jackson was said to have shouted at this point. Oliver Euoni, a trusty at. the jail, who is serving two years on a breaking and entering convic- tion, told of how he was attacked by Jackson whom he struck with a flashlight ‘‘in self defense."’ Then Jackson was said to have picked up a 60-pound stool and said “stay back in the corner or I'll kill you.” ‘Three more prisoners: William R. Redus, Jessie Thomas and Al- bert Davis, who witnessed the brazen escape try, corroborated the statement. of the two men at the hearing. Police Officer Herman Conley, who was.called to the jail at the time of the uprising, said that he sucereded in subduing the pair when he ents ~ the compound with his nightstick. The pair dec...ed to testify at yesterday's hearing although Davis said’ that “everyone that testified here today lied. I never laid a hand on that man (Labrada) and I never will. I was just trying to help him.” Both of the defendants asked for a jury’ trial. Jackson when he made his plea said, “E.can't plead not guilty but it was the conditions in the jail at the time.” Davis faces a breaking and en- tering charge in Miami and has been under bond of $2,725 on mul- tiple charges of auto theft, resist- ing arrest and hit and ran driving. Jackson is held on $500 bond for breaking and entering. Davis has a long police record, Sheriff John Spottswood said. DANCE and BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST ELKS CLUB SATURDAY JAN. 24, 1953 9 P.M. BENEFIT MARCH of DIMES PUBLIC INVITED investigation & cash register as it rests at the Staff Photo. — Seores Of Key Dedication Of Yacht CI Be Laid Saturday A brief but impressive ceremony will take place tomcrrow at 12:30 p. m, when the cornerstone for the Key West Yacht Club:will be laid by Charles S. Taylor, commodore of the club. All county, city and yachting offi- cials will attend. The ceremony will be held at the extreme east end of Garrison Bight. Edward Ambler, building con- tractor for the Yacht Club; said com! approximat days. The ground work has already begun and the foundation will be started at once, he said. Fines And Stiff Jail Sentence Given By Caro Criminal Court Judge “Thomas | Caro handed out one stiff fine and lone six months sentence today in the court session which was brief and to the point. Clifford Brooks Jackson drew the six months sentence for a grand larceny charge. He stole a car in Tavernier several weeks ago. Fine and court costs in lieu of the jail term, amounted to $676.16. Heavy fine of $50 and costs was meted out to John George Bustard on a count of reckiess driving. William Perricone got off lightly jon a less serious charge of reck- less driving ad was fined $10. | ‘Prowler Is Jailed ‘Here On Thursday Leslie Cooke, 26, Fort Lauder- dale was jailed last night on charges of trespassing on private property when he allegedly tried to break down the door to an apartment at 812 South Street. Mrs. Dorothy Kingstead of that address notified police and Lt Gene Hernandez made the arrest. Cooke is being held in the city | jail. He will be arraigned in Muni- cipal Court today. SPECIAL ATTRACTION At DUFFY'S TAVERN 28 Bevel St. GOULD CURRY At The Pine #1 P.M. Taste Angelo’s Delicious PIZZA PILES i leeeiaiamemeianimmmmemmammemet ae sical ih ics POLICE OFFICER HENRY LOUNDERS examines a 200-pound foot of a flight of stairs at the Jockey Club. Register was left there by the robber who fled the scene and was later captured. It is valued at $675.—Citizen Westers Attend Walker Field KEY WEST BORN MARINE: WHO GAVE HIS“LIFE ON TWO JIMA 1S HONORED The U. S. Navy baseball field on the Naval Station was formally dedicated as “Walker Stadium” last night in impressive cere- monies when scores of Key West- ers turned out to honor the mem- ory of a Key West Marine Corps Sergeant’ who gave his life for his country on Iwo Jima in 1945. They heard ‘Admiral Irving T. Duke, Commanding Officer’of the Key West Naval Base say that he was proud to be a member of the seme service as “a man whom all of us should pattern our life of service after.” The parents of the Marine, Nor- ris Albert Walker, a member of the famed Fourth Marine Division, were on hand for the dedication last night. They are: Mrs. J. D. Bearup, 822 Fleming Street, Key West and Roy B. Walker of Home- stead. Top Naval officials as well as civic dignitaries attended the cere- monies which were opened by the playing of the Natignal Anthem by the Key West High School band. They included: State Representa- tive Bernie C. Papy, Mayor C. B. Harvey, City Commissioners Delio Cobo, | Jack Delaney, John Car- bonell and Louis M. J. Eisner; City Manager Dave King and Mrs. Maude Watson, president of the Key West Gold Star Mothers. Chaplain Ray C. Tindall of the Naval Station offered the invoca- tion at the affair. Sgt. Walker was mortally wound- ed on Feb. 19th, 1945 while parti- cipating in the capture of the Japanese bastion of Iwo Jima af- ter having fought in the cam paigns for the Marshall Island Saipan and Tinian. He was wound- ed in the Saipan engagement. Among his decorations were the Purple Heart Medal, Presidential Unit Citation with two stars, Amer- ican Theater Medal and the Asia- tic Pacific Medal with four stars His final resting place is in the Hawaiian Islands. Pope Pius Is Ill VATICAN CITY W — Pope Pius XI remained in bed today with @ mild attack of influenza, and attendants said he would be unable to hold audiences today or tomor- row. His personal physician said. “The course of the Pope's illness jis progressing normally. There i: | 59 cause for concere | to have passed a restt temperature, which yesterd. to about 100 degrees, was lower but | still slightly above normal. The Tt-yearold Pontiff was said in KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1953 Pair Are Bound Over To Criminal Gonerracna, Court On Jail Escape Charges Fri. Counterfeit Bills Appearing In City Jerry J. Tre president of the Florida National Bank, | warned Key Westers today to be on the lookout fer counterfeit | $20 bills, several of which have been passed in the city recently. Trevor said that the bills are counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes drawn on the Federal Re- serve Bank of Thicago, Seri: | No. G97958598C, series of 1934C. | They bear the check letter “L’’; | the face plate number is 108 and the back plate number is 480, he | added. | The banking official said that | the serial number on, counterfeit | money does not change. He add- | ed that the quality of the paper | on the bills in question is rather | inferior. Anyone finding such money should take it to the bank or no- tify the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. It is a federal offense to knowingly have counterfeit money in ones possession. ‘Bond Is Set At $5000 For Man On Rape Count Williams Bound Over To Criminal Court Friday ~ James L. Williams, 24, 119 Duval Street was bound over to Criminal Court on an attempted rape charge after he was given a preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Ira Albury yesterday afternoon. The 24-year old’ Philadelphia short order cook was aceused of attaeking a 19-year old Navy wife as she watched the children of a week até, He red efter: a wild chase by a pair of passers- by. : } , Yesterday’, hearing was a eon- tinuance of athearlier session after County Solicitor,Allen B. Cleare, Jr., had asked for a postponement so that the testimony of additional witnesses could be obtained. Yesterday, Police Lt. Joseph Ce- rezo told of how the wife had hys+ terically pointed out Williams as her attacker when he, had taken him to the Fleming Street apart- ment shortly after he’ was cap- tured. The defendant appeared in court jyesterday wearing the same cloth- ing, a white T-shirt and blue jeans that he wore on the night of the attack. Clean shaven he stolidly denied his guilt before the court. He is accused of gaining entrance to the apartment on a ruse and then beating the woman and attempting to criminally attack her. He will be given a jury trial at the next term of Criminal Court. Justice Albury set bond at $5000. Husband Didn’t Seem Talkative DETROIT — Mrs. Carolina |Nemith obtained a divorce today from her husband charging that jhe hadn’t spoken to her in the last three years. Mrs, Nemith said her husband, Louis, occasionally wrote her a {note during the silence period. Nemith did not comment on the divorce proceedings. Old Calendar Is ‘Now Up To Date BUFFALO, N. Y. @ — Edward Jerzewski, chairman of the Board jof Assessors of suburban Cheek- towaga, is a man who likes to save time. | Eleven years ago. someone gave him a cal around to u t 3 perched on his usable ki gleef points out jthat the dates this year are the jsame as in 192. ‘RED OUTPUT IS UP ; } MOSCOW i®—The Soviet Union fannounced toda: its 1952 in- idus P t 1! per cent t b I's with increases sie vital al roers that of “Hardworking” Thief Att PRICE FIVE CENT: el Pilfer 200-Pound Cash Register lila APPARENTLY EXHAUSTED by the exertion of carrying a 200- potind cash register from the Jockey Club early today, Thomas Conaty, 719 Emma Street, snoozes peacefully in his cell at the city jail. Conaty was captured after he nonchalantly walked Bartender Jailed After Breaking Into Night Club Here This Morning A man who certainly must qualify as Key West’s hardest working thief was jailed this morning after he at- tempted to carry a 200-pound cash register from 4 local bar. The man, Thomas Conaty, 23, 709 Emma Street, was captured by two bystanders after he tumbled down a flight of steps while nonchalantly carrying the register which contained $105.80 from the Jockey Club at the cor- aer of Greene and Simonton Streets shortly after 8:00 New Members Are Welcomed ‘By Chamber a.m. today. Conaty, who has been employed as a bartender at the Mardi Gras Club, is in the Monroe County Jail for investigation. Police were summoned to the scene by Manuel Cuerto, 631 United Street, a porter at the club. When they arrived they found the ac- cused held in check by William Sawyer and Walter Groden, both . |: New members of the Chamber of if 134 Simonton Street. off with the register and fell down a long<flight of stairs. The crash attracted attention and Citizen Staff Photo. resulted in his apprehension.— ile Went Bliataway , fe But The Marines PY ° And Navy Got Him No, the man wasn’t shot, but he didn’t get away from the Navy and. the. Marines, either. Pupils at Truman School may have thought they were getting in on the end of a cops and rob- bers real life chase yesterday, when a Navy prisoner who was attempting to escape was appre- hended right in the school yard. At least one little boy. has a spent bullet to prove that some- thing went on, though. What really happened was this: At about 11:31 a. m. ‘a truck pulled up to the stop light at Truman and White Streets. In the truck was a military prisoner who was being taken from the Naval Hospital to the brig at the Naval Station. As it happens so often in the movies, the man was unable to resist what looked like an op- portunity to escape; so he leaped from the truck and ran toward | Truman School. The Marine, being always pre- | pared, jumped out after the | would-be escapee, and shouted jfor him to halt, but of course, prisoners seldom halt when they're told to. So the Marine fired a warning shot. At that point the prisoner must have harked back to his childhood | days of playing that when some- On Key West Has Caused Interest The photographs which George Leavens took here last season for assignment from the magazine Family Circle, and which appear- ed in the December issue with a long story, brought in over 500 jletters of inquiry from .people who | wrote the Chamber of Commerce after reading the article. A few of*the scenes were of the usual tourist attractions but some were of interiors of homes, like that of Mrs. E. L. Newton’s at 410 Caroline Street and of Key West patios and gardens. One showed the March of Dimes en- tertainment at the.Casa Marina hotel in which Key West rumba specialists danced. The aquarium, turtle crawls and beach secnes were also included in the famous photographers itinerary. Leavens jalso took a series of honky tonk | show pictures, but these did not lappear (sic semper). | The Key West Flower Show | (Continued On Page Three) | Commerce include the Key West | Kennel Club, Stock Island, the Green Trellis Motel, 909 Elizabeth | Street, the Brodhead Motel Apart- ‘ments at 711 Catherine Street, and Mrs. Eileen Coughlin, 1021 Duval Street. At the board meeting held re- "| cently, the Chamber agreed to wel- come a group of flyers of private planes’ who will come here in Apri from North Carolina. The Police said that Sawyer and Gro- {den who are employed in the build- ing occupied by the nightclub, were attracted to the scene by a “ter- rifie crash.” They found Conaty leaving at the foot of the stairs on top of the cash register. Their first thought, they said, was that the man was carrying the cash register from the build- ing for repairs and they tried to committee headed by Victor Lang and Neil Knowles have been given $100 for expenditures in welcoming the group. Another committee has been ap- pointed to explore possibilities of welcoming the cast and company f producers of a movie which. tentatively be filmed here jn M. ‘The committee includes * Price, Paul Sher and Judge Aquil- ino Lopez, Jr. : Sher is also @ member of a com- mittee with Joe Pinder, S. F. Whalton and Toby Bruce who will discuss the feasibility of setting up a new division of merchant mem- bers of the Chamber who operate credit businesses here. The com- mittee will consider a credit re- porting service in connection with the Chamber. Woman Is Struck By Car Thursday Melinda Farrington, 314 Olivia Street, was only slightly injured when she was struck by an auto- mobile yesterday at Windsor Lane and Olivia Street. John Gelabert, 706 Elizabeth Street, the driver of the car, took |the woman to the Monroe General Hospital where her injuries were diagnosed as nothing worse than | bruises. | The parties involved agreed to |settle the matter among | selves. NK YARD IN HELL” Day At Korean Front Gives Rugged Picture By FORREST EDWARDS ithe front where .45 caliber pistols , MIAMI (#—Small craft warnings were hoisted at noon today all Peninsula and them- |a cold air mass moves in behind la low centered over Louisiana. trench. Fifteen yards farther down WESTERN FRONT, Korea w—|make the Reds keep their heads | the trench, Pie. Ray Wise of Evan- ar. But he never got | al | posed to fall, and he fell. Horrified| Nothing on this outpost, only 40 | on-lookers were sure the man was|yards from the Chinese Reds, is | shot. whole-except the men. By dawn | The Navy enlisted man who was some of them may not be. Seven } driving the truck, joined the chase were hit here last night. |at that juneture. He and the Ma-| Only the lottery of war has pre- lrine guard ran over to the pros-j vented Allied casualties today. The trate prisoner. And what did the | Commies have spared no ammu- rascal do? He got up and took off | nition. again across the school yard. | The Reds shell this 50 square It had to end sometime, and it | yards of blasted bare land with did. The posse caught up with|an intensity unknown anywhere their man, got him back into the /¢lse on the western front truck and took off for the Naval; A handful of American soldiers Station, where they got him safe-/4re trying to build « fortress out ly stashed in the brig, at last. | [Post under this almost constant Score: No one hurt, one prisoner | fire. Shells rip the trenches and in the brig, one tired Marine and | bunkers apart as fast as they are one tired Nuvy man. joe . The Navy did not identify the The Chinese Reds are so close jumpy prisoner, but they did say YOU often hear the soft plop of \that he is awaiting results of ‘heir mortar shells as they drop | eeneral court martial. mo the ining t Attention Please! KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling MR. FEINSTEIN t OAL 2.3636 We BUY all kinds of JUNK All ® of S Mota Located at Simonton & Dey Sits. this is probably the only place on one said “bang” you were sup-| This place is a junk yard in hell. j down. Around a bend in the shallow trench from the main Allied line, which is 300 yards to the rear, |there is a place where a man can stand erect | Second Lt. Thomas Darnell, Co- | Vina, Calif., is standing there. His automatic pistol keeps up a slow and steady bark. Forty yards away little puffs of dirt kick up at the top ef a Communist trench. “We are so close that a rifle is next to useless here.” Darnell | explains } “This is the only way we can} make them keep their heads down. | And they can’t snipe at us if they | can't get their beads above the | | trench.” | Capt. Bem Price of Atisnta | crawls sround the bend in the} shallow trench, reaches the deep | taps the lieutenant on the boot” me eet Price in on of Price's pistol joins idameed discouraging” ston, Il, roars his disapproval. “Happens constantly,” he Plains. “We get in a fresh of ammo and it gets shot the gooks before we get « to use it on them-down!” This explosion is 10 yards far- ther to the left. “That one got out last can of water,” yells Pie. Lioyd A. Bridges of Waynesville, N. C. hand is leaking from a dozen holes. He and Wise catch some in can- teen cups. “We don't get supplied at night,” explains Darnell. “We save as mach as we can but it's He waves a hand at @ pile of water cane, all riddled and empty There ate sharp cracks over- head Now comes the sniping. Deorned we more beiore 1 ge home. A lot can happes to a mans in two weeks out bere.” eid [ * mut t